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About Cards for Community

For now, this isn't a game. These cards, plus our introductory intro to open data, help you learn three things:

how to sort, filter, group by, and roll-up data

how to use NYC's open data portal and/or basic spreadsheet functions

core NYC 311 service request data atributes

If you are using these cards for the first time, we highly recommend that you read our Cards for Community Lab and review our companion slides. (Note - Eventually, we'll migrate all of these files to GitHub. If you want to help us, please visit our project issues and help out.)

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How to play

There are four types of cards: Action cards, Column cards, Data Value cards, and Story cards.

The goal is to sequence action, column, and data value cards to answer the story card. If you want to enrich the playing experience, you should either explore the sample data via a spreadsheet application or use the NYC 311 open data dataset. Playing the these will teach you about data analysis, specific analytical functions, and NYC's government.

Sort cards into piles: Action, Column Name, Data Value and Story.

Choose a Story card.

From the middle section of the Story card, select the required Data Actions (in Blue) and Data Columns (in Orange) that you’ll need to build your answer.

Now is the time to customize your story. Choose Data Value cards to match the Columns in a way that tells YOUR story, or if you can’t find the value you are looking for, take a blank Data Value card, and write it in.

Lay out your cards in a way that helps you tell the story.

Read your story out loud (refer to the bottom section of the card for cues).

Now, once you are familiar with the NYC Open Data portal, you can plug in the necessary steps to determine an accurate, up-to-date answer.

Files & Data Sources

Adobe Illustrator
These are the most up to date version of the cards. These art decks need to be compiled into printable sheets. file

PDFs or Images

These files can be printed via any printer. (Note - these are too big to store on github. You can download them from our open google drive.)

Issues

Types of cards

Types of Cards:

Story Cards
How many service requests have been made in my Zip Code?
How many Heat/Hot Water service requests have been made in my Community Board?
What is the Borough with the lowest number of service requests?
Which City Agency has the most service requests?
What are the top ten Complaint Types in my Community Board?
Where are individual service requests located within my Community Board?
How can I see the spatial distribution of service requests in my Community Board?